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Study: Simple Temperature Checks And Question Screening Not Very Effective Catching COVID-19 Spreaders

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — The United States continues to set frightening COVID-19 records — in new cases and hospitals near, at or over capacity across the country. This while the most common ways that are being used to screen for the virus may not be effective, CBS2’s Dr. Max Gomez reported Wednesday. MORE : Eli Lilly COVID-19 Antibody Drug Gets Emergency Use Authorization From FDA Because we do not yet have rapid, abundant testing, one strategy to allow the economy to reopen has been to take people’s temperature and ask them a few simple questions about symptoms and travel. It turns out that approach isn’t very effective at catching asymptomatic COVID spreaders. CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC Tri-State Coronavirus Travel Advisory Quarantine List Resources, Hotlines, Unemployment & Covering Bills Remote Learning Tools For Parents Teaching At Home CBS2’s Dr. Max Answers Your Health Questions What To Do If Someone Isn’t Social Distancing Or Wearing A Mask? Expert: Parents Be Mindful Of Children’s Stress After Months Of Isolation Chopper 2 Over Empty NYC Streets, Landmarks Complete Coronavirus Coverage The discouraging news comes from a just-published study in the New England Journal of Medicine . Researchers from the Navy and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai tested, followed and quarantined under close supervision nearly 2,000 new Marine Corps recruits before and at the start of basic training. MORE : Pfizer Says Trials Show COVID-19 Vaccine Is ‘More Than 90% Effective’ Few infected recruits had symptoms before a nasal swab test diagnosed them with coronavirus , despite daily temperature and symptom screening. “This suggests that relying on symptom screening and temperature checks alone, it’s not very effective in finding infected individuals. All of the infected individuals were found by scheduled tests that were done independent of the presence of symptoms or elevated temperature,” said Dr. Stuart Sealfon of the Icahn School of Medicine. CORONAVIRUS: NY Health Dept. | NY Call 1-(888)-364-3065 | NYC Health Dept. | NYC Call 311, Text COVID to 692692 | NJ COVID-19 Info Hub | NJ Call 1-(800)-222-1222 or 211, Text NJCOVID to 898211 | CT Health Dept. | CT Call 211 | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention This while COVID cases and hospitalizations are skyrocketing across the country. However, the death rate in the Tri-State Area has been surprisingly low compared to our first massive outbreak back in the spring. Experts attribute that partly to experience, leading to better medical care and medications. Also older, more vulnerable people are taking greater precautions, so infected populations are trending younger. The bad news is that death rates generally lag two to three weeks behind hospitalizations, so we may yet see mortality numbers rise. Dr. Sealfon said our best defense right now is masks, social distancing and massively increased testing. MORE FROM CBS NEW YORK Family: Upstate Woman Missing A Week After Going Bowling In Queens Aggressive Effort To Curb COVID-19 infection Rates Begins On Staten Island; N.J. Restrictions Looming NYC Sees Long Lines At Some COVID Testing Sites As Cases Keep Climbing You can get the latest news, sports and weather on our brand new CBS New York app. Download here .

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3 Easy Ways To Foster A Love A Science In Your Kids

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By Gillian Burdett Kids are curious. A beetle crawling across the sidewalk commands the complete attention of a 2-year-old, and 4-year-olds question the why of everything. Tasting mud in the yard is an exercise in data collection; dropping a fork into the garbage disposal to see if it processes the same as a potato peel is an experiment. Kids are born scientists, and feeding that natural tendency will keep the spark of curiosity alive and allow kids to embrace science when it is presented as a formal discipline in school. Be an Observer of Nature Your neighborhood provides opportunities for observing the natural world. A pair of binoculars or a magnifying glass, a field guide and a notebook to record observations are all you need to introduce your children to nature. Identify the birds outside your home and research their behaviors and calls online. Your child may be more interested in insects, trees or rocks. Encourage him or her to learn their names and begin a collection. A family trip will offer more opportunities to observe different species. Take walks in the park with your child. Seek out lily pads on a pond that may hold frog eggs. Look for tadpoles at different stages of growth. Examine milkweed plants for the gilded chrysalis of the monarch butterfly. As children’s knowledge of the natural world grows, the more they will want to learn. The Why of a Physical World A lecture on Newton’s Laws of Motion may be dull, but nothing is dull about launching an apple from a giant slingshot. Incorporating basic laws of physics into fun activities will get young minds thinking and inventing. An afternoon at the bowling alley is an opportunity to study momentum and some copper wire, a light bulb, a switch and a small battery can become an experiment it electrical circuits. Your kid’s bicycle can be explained as a simple machine with wheel and axle, chain and gears. Challenge your child to figure out how the brakes work and why a bike ride speeds up on the downhills and slows when going uphill. Science in the Kitchen Flour and water are just flour and water until you add some fungi. This recipe may not sound appetizing, but it is the basis for bread. The fungi are yeast, microorganisms that will eat the sugar found in flour and release carbon dioxide into the water causing the mixture to rise and form airy loaves of bread. Discover more kitchen chemistry by manipulating sucrose molecules to create fudge and rock candy. These are just two example of the science behind food preparation. The kitchen is an accessible laboratory where your kids may experiment with recipes or study the properties of different foods. Encourage creation in the kitchen and make sure your children keep notes of each experiment and its results just as scientist records data. In a safe environment, kids will feel free to explore and learn about their surroundings. Unless children live in an unstable, scary world where they must seek comfort in familiarity, novelty isn’t threatening, it is interesting. You can encourage this exploration by providing safe spaces and allowing kids to get a little messy.

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